“..I suppose you have heard the victory at Henry’s Island..”

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War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by John Murrey Atwood, 29th Mass Vols, 4pp. octavo, Camp Butler, Newport News, February 9, 1862, and reads in part: “..The clay and mud is nearly ankle deep. I have just come in from inspection and a nasty time it was for it, for we have to lay our knapsacks right down in the mud or anywhere else so they can inspect our clothes...I suppose you have heard the victory at Henry’s Island - for fear that you will not hear of it, I will just mention it. Gen. Mansfield here has just received a telegraphers dispatch stating that our troops have taken the island with one General, 5 colonels and any quantity of men besides forty cannons...” Fine condition.

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